Dig-into-the-Past - Please Explain 21st Century Skills

Please Explain 21st Century Skills

Takes responsibility for the quality and timeliness of his or her own work; uses feedback; stays on task during group work.
Accepts shared responsibility for the work of the group; helps improve the quality of the work and understanding of other members.
Applies or encourages the use of strategies for facilitating discussion and decision-making.
Manages project by identifying and prioritizing goals and tasks, creating timelines, organizing resources, and monitoring progress.
Respects the ideas, opinions, abilities, values, and feelings of other group members.
Works well with diverse group members.
Encourages group cohesion by using conflict management strategies.

Organizes ideas and develops content appropriate to audiences and situations.
Uses effective oral presentation skills.
Creates media/visual aides that enhance content delivery.
Gauges audience reaction and/or understanding and adjusts presentation appropriately.
Responds to questions appropriately.

Recognizes and defines problems accurately; raises relevant questions and issues, formulating them clearly and precisely.
Gathers pertinent information from a variety of sources; evaluates the quality of information (source, validity, bias).
Organizes, analyzes, and synthesizes information to develop well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, judging them against relevant criteria.
Considers alternatives; recognizes and assesses assumptions, implications and practical consequences.

Explain thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts.
Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions.
Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade).
Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness as well as assess their impact.
Communicate effectively in diverse environments.

Courtesy of Buck Institute of Education and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.